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Jumat, 21 Juni 2024

Mourners gather on the Italian coast after at least 60 people killed when migrant sailboat capsized - Sky News

On the coastline of southern Italy, a small group gathered at the water's edge.

They could not go any further into the Ionian Sea although they clearly wished they could.

"Is Europe worth all this trouble, I swear to God it's not," says a man called Setar.

"Why put your wife and children through this?"

The shock is real, the feelings raw after the deaths of 60 or more migrants in the central Mediterranean in this incident alone.

The Italian coastguard says 20 bodies have been recovered off the coast of Calabria after a sailboat packed with migrants capsized and sank.

Some 76 people were believed to be on board, and only 11 survived. The rest are missing and feared dead.

Passengers clung to the remains of the semi-submerged craft some 120 miles from the Italian coast but assistance - in the form of the coastguard - took four days to arrive.

Only 11 managed to survive the ordeal.

Smugglers organised the journey from a place near Bodrum in Turkey, using a well-used migration seaway through the Mediterranean.

More than 70 paid for a spot in the vessel, with the majority formed by Kurds from Iran and Iraq.

Some passengers told their relatives that they would travelling "like VIPs", but that was just a lie spun by the smugglers.

There were few provisions on board.

We found a woman called Mitra Ghasem Karimi, sitting under the hull of an old boat in the Italian port of Roccella Ionica.

It was clear that Ms Karimi had been crying.

Originally from Iran, she now lives in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. She told me that her brother Pourya, 41, and sister Somma, 36, had boarded that craft.

She said: "There was no water, there was no food in the boat - but to the families and the people who got in that damn boat, (the smugglers) said yes, there is water, food.

"My brother and sister had life jackets, but they would not let them take them with them. Why?"

Mitra and her husband said they wanted to hire a helicopter so they could fly over the remains of the vessel. I asked them what they were expecting to see.

She replied: "Maybe some bodies, maybe I can find the body of my own brother and sister, to find the bodies and take them to my mum, so my mum can mourn."

Mitra had stowed her brother and sister's Iranian passports securely in her bag, and she burst into tears as she took them out to show me.

"They just wanted a better life, the people who got into that boat. Why can't they have that life in their country, their damn country?" she said.

It took the best part of a day to hire a helicopter - along with 6,000 Euros in cash - but Mitra did not find the bodies of her brother and sister.

Her siblings remain lost at sea.

But she has recordings of their voices stored on phone and she has hovered above the waters where they lost their lives.

It may have brought her a small measure of peace.

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Ukraine war briefing: Boost to Patriot missile supplies for Kyiv – other countries will have to wait - The Guardian

The US will send the latest Patriot missiles “rolling off the production line” to Ukraine instead of other countries that ordered them, the White House said on Thursday. “We’re going to reprioritise the deliveries of these exports,” said John Kirby, the national security council spokesman. It also applies to Nasams, another type of air defence missile. “Deliveries of these missiles to other countries that are currently in the queue will have to be delayed,” Kirby said, though deliveries to Taiwan and Israel would not be affected.
Asked about the timing of the Patriot decision, the Pentagon cited Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. “What we’re seeing is Russia once again trying to destroy Ukraine’s energy system and infrastructure ahead of winter, and so they urgently need … additional air defense capabilities,” said Maj Gen Pat Ryder. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, on Thursday welcomed Romania’s decision to provide Ukraine with one of its two Patriot systems.
Ukrainian drones struck a Russian airbase in a second night of attacks on the Krasnodar region, reports online said. Russian emergency officials, writing on the Telegram messaging app, confirmed three municipalities of Krasnodar came under “massive attack”. The Russian journalist-run Astra social media channel reported that Yeysk, home to a military airfield, was hit by drones and there were fires afterwards, and posted eyewitness videos. Nasa satellite fire monitoring indicated fires or hotspots at the airbase. The Krasnodar region sits across the Kerch strait from Crimea.
Ukraine can use US-supplied weapons to hit Russian forces that are firing on Ukrainian troops anywhere across the border into Russia and not just in Russian territory near Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the Pentagon said. “It’s self-defence and so it makes sense for them to be able to do that,” Ryder said.
The White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told PBS this week that Ukraine could also use air-defence systems to fire at planes in Russian airspace preparing to fire at Ukraine. Last month, Joe Biden authorised Ukraine to launch US-supplied into Russia, but officials said at the time that it applied only to targets related to the Russian offensive on the Kharkiv region.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has announced measures to protect Ukraine’s energy system, including protection for power plants under Russian fire and the development of alternative and renewable energy sources. Drone and missile strikes have knocked out half of generating capacity since March, according to official figures. Attacks overnight into Thursday hit four regions and cut power to more than 218,000 consumers, the energy ministry said.
Zelenskiy outlined plans to develop solar energy and energy storage facilities, “decentralised energy capacities”, and a schedule for critical infrastructure sites to come up with alternative energy sources. The work, he said, must be completed before winter and its increased energy demand.
South Korea will consider sending arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea signed a military pact, infuriating the South’s leadership. “It’s absurd that two parties with a history of launching wars of invasion – the Korean war and the war in Ukraine – are now vowing mutual military cooperation on the premise of a pre-emptive attack by the international community that will never happen,” said the office of Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president.
At the UN, the South Korean foreign minister, Cho Tae-yul, called it “deplorable” that Russia was now violating UN sanctions against North Korea that it had voted to put in place. South Korea is a growing arms exporter with a well-equipped military backed by the US, but usually does not supply weapons to countries actively engaged in conflict.
Speaking to reporters in Hanoi, where he travelled right after Pyongyang, Putin said on Thursday that supplying weapons to Ukraine would be “a very big mistake” on South Korea’s part and said he might do likewise for North Korea – a comment at odds with the fact that in the Ukraine war, it is Russia that has had to rely partly on the supply of weapons by Kim Jong-un’s regime.
Russians on Thursday reported problems with processing payments at major banks after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attack, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported. The paper said the Telegram messaging app and major mobile phone networks were also affected. The IT Army of Ukraine, a volunteer hacker group, claimed responsibility.
A Ukrainian centre giving bionic and prosthetic limbs to soldiers has expanded its main hospital and intends to open others. Thousands of Ukrainian troops have lost limbs to bombing and mines since the full-scale invasion in 2022. Philipp Grushko, co-founder of the Superhumans Centre, said the new hospital wing opened in Lviv on Thursday would help meet demand for prosthetics and reconstructive surgery, fitting 70-75 prosthetics and conducting 30-45 reconstructive surgeries a month. A 4,000 sq metre facility opening soon in Odesa would include a prosthetics lab and rehab gym.
With Agence France-Presse, Reuters and Associated Press

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'Big mistake' for South Korea to arm Ukraine - Putin - BBC

Kelly Ng

BBC News

21 June 2024, 06:15 BST

Updated 13 minutes ago

Vladimir Putin has warned South Korea it would be making "a big mistake" if it arms Ukraine in the war against Russia.

His comments come after Seoul said it was considering such a possibility, in response to Russia and North Korea's new pact to help each other in the event of "aggression" against either country.

Moscow "will... [make] decisions which are unlikely to please the current leadership of South Korea" if Seoul decides to supply arms to Kyiv, Mr Putin told reporters on Thursday.

The Russian leader was speaking in Vietnam, shortly after a lavish visit to Pyongyang where he signed a mutual defence agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Mr Putin also warned that Moscow is willing to arm Pyongyang if the US and its allies continue supplying Ukraine with weapons "with impunity".

"We do not rule out supplying weapons to other countries, including [North Korea]... Let the West think where they might end up," Russian state media reported Mr Putin as saying.

Seoul had earlier condemned the Russian-North Korean agreement as a threat to its national security, and national security adviser Chang Ho-jin had said his country planned to "reconsider the issue of arms support to Ukraine".

Following Mr Putin's remarks, South Korea's presidential office said on Friday it would consider "various options" in supplying arms to Ukraine and its stance will "depend on how Russia approaches this issue".

It also summoned the Russian ambassador Georgy Zinoviev to protest the pact, demanding that Moscow "immediately ceases" military cooperation with Pyongyang.

While South Korea has given humanitarian aid and military equipment to Ukraine, it has so far refused to provide lethal weapons as it has an official policy not to arm countries at war.

Some in Ukraine have been hoping that the deepening military collaboration between Moscow and Pyongyang would cause Seoul to rethink its approach. Analysts had earlier said that Kyiv would use Mr Putin's visit to Pyongyang to up the pressure.

During the visit, Mr Kim had also pledged "full support" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There is growing evidence that Russia has already been deploying North Korean missiles in Ukraine.

Early on Friday the US national security council's spokesman John Kirby weighed in on the Russian-North Korean agreement, saying it should "be of concern to any country that cares about maintaining peace and stability" in the region.

He added that the agreement was "no surprise", saying that the US had been warning about the two countries' "burgeoning defence relationship" for many months.

Tokyo said it was “seriously concerned that President Putin did not rule out military technology co-operation with North Korea”, Japan's government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said, adding that the agreement was "unacceptable".

Analysts have said that the treaty could have significant implications for the world as well as the region. Besides the possibility of North Korean openly arming Russia, it could also potentially see Russia intervening in any fresh conflict on the Korean peninsula.

The two Koreas are still technically at war and maintain a heavily guarded border, where tensions have worsened in recent weeks.

In a separate incident on Thursday, North Korean troops "briefly crossed" the border and retreated after the South fired warning shots, Seoul authorities said on Friday.

This marks the third such incident in less than three weeks. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff had said the two earlier cases - on 9 June and 18 June - appeared to be unintentional.

Additional reporting by Jean Mackenzie.

Kamis, 20 Juni 2024

More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca - The Guardian

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, with more than half of the victims unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.

The new deaths reported on Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a breakdown showing that of 658 Egyptians who died, 630 were unregistered pilgrims.

About 10 countries have reported 1,081 deaths during the pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam which all Muslims with the means must complete at least once.

The hajj, whose timing is determined by the lunar Islamic calendar, fell again this year during the oven-like Saudi summer.

The national meteorological centre reported a high of 51.8C (125F) this week at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

A Saudi study published last month said temperatures in the area were rising by 0.4C each decade.

Each year tens of thousands of pilgrims try to join the hajj through irregular channels as they cannot afford the often costly official permits.

Saudi authorities reported clearing hundreds of thousands of unregistered pilgrims from Mecca this month, but it appears many still participated in the main rites which began last Friday. This group was more vulnerable, because without official permits they could not access air-conditioned spaces provided for the 1.8 million authorised pilgrims to cool down.

“People were tired after being chased by security forces before Arafat day. They were exhausted,” one Arab diplomat said on Thursday about Saturday’s day-long outdoor prayers that marked the climax of the hajj.

The diplomat said the main cause of death among Egyptian pilgrims was the heat, which triggered complications related to high blood pressure and other problems.

Egyptian officials were visiting hospitals to obtain information and help Egyptian pilgrims receive medical care, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

“However, there are large numbers of Egyptian citizens who are not registered in hajj databases, which requires double the effort and a longer time to search for missing persons and find their relatives,” it said.

Egypt’s president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has ordered that a “crisis cell” headed by the prime minister follow up on the deaths of the country’s pilgrims.

Sisi stressed “the need for immediate coordination with the Saudi authorities to facilitate receiving the bodies of the deceased and streamline the process”, said a statement from his office.

Pakistan and Indonesia also confirmed more deaths on Thursday.

Out of about 150,000 pilgrims, Pakistan had so far recorded 58 deaths, a diplomat said. “I think given the number of people, given the weather, this is just natural,” the diplomat said.

Indonesia, which had about 240,000 pilgrims, had raised its death toll to 183, its religious affairs ministry said, compared with 313 deaths recorded last year.

Deaths have also been confirmed by Malaysia, India, Jordan, Iran, Senegal, Tunisia, Sudan and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. In many cases, authorities have not specified the cause.

Friends and relatives have been searching for missing pilgrims, scouring hospitals and pleading online for news, fearing the worst.

Two diplomats said on Thursday that Saudi authorities had begun the burial process for dead pilgrims, cleaning the bodies and putting them in white burial cloth and taking them to be interred.

“The burial is done by the Saudi authorities. They have their own system so we just follow that,” said one diplomat, who said his country was working to notify loved ones as best it could.

The other diplomat said that it would be impossible to notify many families ahead of time, especially in Egypt, which accounts for so many of the dead.

Saudi Arabia has not provided information on deaths, though it reported more than 2,700 cases of “heat exhaustion” on Sunday alone.

Last year, various countries reported more than 300 deaths during the hajj, mostly Indonesians.

The timing of the hajj moves back about 11 days each year in the Gregorian calendar, meaning that next year it will take place earlier in June, potentially in cooler conditions.

A 2019 study by the journal Geophysical Research Letters said because of the climate crisis, heat stress for hajj pilgrims would exceed the “extreme danger threshold” from 2047 to 2052 and 2079 to 2086, “with increasing frequency and intensity as the century progresses”.

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Putin arrives in Vietnam for state visit condemned by US - The Guardian

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vietnam for talks with its communist leaders on the final stop of his two-nation tour of Asia after signing a defence pact with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

The Russian president’s plane touched down at Hanoi airport where he was met on a red carpet by Vietnamese deputy prime minister Tran Hong Ha and top party diplomat Le Hoai Trung.

The visit has drawn criticism from the US, among Vietnam’s top trade partners, which has warned it risks normalising Russia’s “blatant violations of international law”.

According to a report from Russian news agency Tass, Putin is set to discuss collaboration in “trade and economic, scientific, technological and humanitarian areas” as well as to exchange views on key issues on the international and regional agenda.

In an opinion piece to coincide with his visit, published in Vietnam’s Communist party newspaper Nhan Dan, Putin listed progress on payments, energy and trade between the countries. He also applauded Vietnam for supporting “a pragmatic way to solve the crisis” in Ukraine.

Vietnam’s leadership favours a so-called “bamboo diplomacy” – which sways with the winds, and avoids picking sides in international disputes – including in relation to Ukraine, and the rivalry between the US and China.

Vietnam, a manufacturing powerhouse, has grown closer to the US and its allies, and last year Communist party leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, hosted US president Joe Biden and upgraded ties with Washington, as well as with Australia and Japan.

Analysts questioned if the visit will bring any tangible benefit to Vietnam, and say it is instead a reflection of the two countries’ historical ties.

Honour guard for Putin’s arrival at Noi Bai airport, Hanoi, Vietnam

Russia is a longstanding friend of Hanoi and Putin will receive a warm welcome in Vietnam, where many still remember the support the Soviet Union gave to Vietnam in past wars against the French and US. The former Soviet Union was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the Vietnamese government of Ho Chi Minh.

Putin was scheduled to meet Trong, who is among many officials who went to study in the Soviet Union, as well as the state president, To Lam, and the prime minster, Pham Minh Chinh. The Russian leader was also due to attend wreath laying ceremonies, including at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum housing the embalmed corpse of Vietnam’s founding leader.

Russia is not a major source of trade for Vietnam, and US sanctions against Russia mean there is a low likelihood of major economic announcement. Trade between the two countries stood at just $3.5bn in 2022 – far less than Vietnam’s $175bn trade with China and $123bn with the United States.

The two countries do have strong energy ties, however, with Russian firms operating in Vietnamese oil and gas in fields in the South China Sea – areas also claimed by China.

Russia is also the biggest supplier of weapons to the country, though arms transfers have fallen over recent years, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A spokesperson for the US embassy in Hanoi warned ahead of the visit that “no country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression and otherwise allow him to normalise his atrocities.”

The Russian president’s arrival in Vietnam comes after a high-profile visit to Pyongyang, in which he and the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, signed a mutual defence pact.

The agreement includes a clause requiring the countries to come to each other’s aid if either is attacked, raising western concerns about potential Russian aid for North Korea’s missile or nuclear programmes.

Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press contributed to this report

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Filipino soldiers fight off 'armed' Chinese coastguard with 'bare hands' in disputed South China Sea - Sky News

Filipino soldiers used their "bare hands" to fight off armed Chinese coastguard in the disputed South China Sea, a Philippine military chief has said.

General Romeo Brawner Jr, head of the Philippine armed forces, accused Chinese personnel of boarding more than eight motorboats and repeatedly ramming, then boarding, two inflatable vessels on Monday.

Comparing the act to piracy, he said the Chinese had bladed weapons and tried to prevent the transfer of food, firearms and other supplies to a Philippine territorial outpost in the disputed area of the Second Thomas Shoal.

Hostilities between the two countries have escalated in and around the shoal - where the Philippines grounded the BRP Sierra Madre ship in 1999 to create the outpost - which is also claimed by Beijing.

Footage released by the Philippine military on Wednesday showed the dispute, with Chinese personnel brandishing what appeared to be machetes, knives, axes, hammers and sticks while surrounding two supply boats.

Sirens blared constantly as both sides could be heard yelling at each other. The Chinese appeared to smash the Philippine navy boat with a pole and images showed its side floaters slashed and deflated, and another boat with its windshields and navigational screens shattered.

One Filipino solider lost his right thumb and a number of others were injured as M4 rifles, navigation equipment and other supplies were seized, two Philippine security officials said.

"Only pirates do this. Only pirates board, steal, and destroy ships, equipment, and belongings," Gen Brawner said.

He demanded the Chinese return all firearms and equipment and "pay for the damage they caused".

China blamed the Philippines for the confrontation, saying Filipino personnel "trespassed" into the shoal, ignoring its warnings.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said the Chinese coastguard took "professional law-enforcement measures", accusing the Philippines of illegally supplying its vessels.

"No direct measures were taken against the Philippine personnel," he added.

The incident prompted the US to renew a warning that it is obligated to defend the Philippines, a treaty ally.

In addition to China and the Philippines - Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have conflicting territorial claims in the waterway.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea - a claim invalidated by an international tribunal in 2016.

A “brazen act of aggression” by China - Philippines defence secretary Gilberto Teodoro

Mr Teodoro said all out conflict with China is “a big concern” for his country and that they are facing a very “volatile and dynamic situation”.

Beijing’s ultimate aim was to “strangle international commerce and bring the South China Sea under their exclusive control."

Manila has an “obligation” as a government to “ensure that the Filipino people have the ultimate use and be the ultimate beneficiaries of the economic zone."

Beijing’s actions near the disputed Scarborough Shoal as part of a campaign of “persistent bullying” bent on “weakening our economy and moral fabric”.

They are a “peace loving people” who wanted to “avoid conflict”, but he would not be drawn on whether his administration has a red line.

Alleged illegal acts by China would be “a violation of our basic law, our constitution” and impossible for “government officials to ignore,” but “the idea of any sort of armed conflict to any Filipino, is really worrisome…We will always try to avoid it."

The Philippines National Task Force said it will continue supply missions to the shoal "on a regular basis."

As long as they are “harassed” by China, “these conflicts will continue because these are Filipino fishermen within the EEZ and within traditional fishing areas.”

The US has recently said it will respond if there is a military move against the Philippines by China but Mr Teodoro said: “I wish the whole world was more vociferous in voicing their concern and opposition to what China is illegally doing.”

He believes China has not only “attempted to redefine international law but to also redefine the English dictionary with the word provocation,” the product of a “paranoid mentality brought up by a closed society.”

In January, Manila and Beijing agreed to improve maritime communication through talks, especially regarding the shoal.

Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Jay Tarriela described China's actions as "provocative, unprofessional and inhumane".

"They serve as a clear indication that humanity has once again allowed barbarism to trample upon compassion, and that what is right is only defined by might," he wrote on X after the latest clash.

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Japan and South Korea sound alarm over Putin-Kim military pact - Financial Times

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